Fucking cowards

The longer it takes for this to come across your dash the funnier it is

Which will fade first? Memories of the Area 51 "raid", or memories of Internet Explorer?

Aliens bodies are probably different as hell. Or similar

Oppression olympics is a funny term to levy against trans women, who are banned from the olympics.

i hate seeing neopoptimists respond to the emily wilson review of nolan's odyssey by pretending it says something completely different to what it says. wilson literally doesn't say anything that indicates she objects to the concept of adaptation, she literally explains why she thinks each individual adaptation choice is a bad one in the most clear terms possible. some people genuinely just get aggro'd just from seeing anyone criticize a blockbuster movie it's bleak

the fact that dark worlds feel like lively vast worlds full of people with their own thoughts and feelings, while hometown feels like a last thursdayish bubble where every other npc is slowly losing sentience, really drives home how it feels to see no future or interest in your real life and having to sink into fiction to escape that feeling of emptiness

Yeah yeah downfall of the jedi bla bla, but the films never actually addresse this as a fault. textually qui gon and obi wan are completely unconcerned about this

watching the leftism leaving peoples bodies when you point out the sex offender registry is a grotesque violation of human rights

There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.